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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 22-2701588

The Butler Foundation

A private foundation in Springfield, NH. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 12 grants and $2.5 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
The Butler Foundation Cynthia Wentw
PO Box 430
Springfield, NH 03284
(603) 369-7224
[email protected]
Form and materials
For scholarships only - there is no formal submission deadline. The applicant submits the application to the board of trustees of the butler foundation. The applicant is required to write an essay and supply high school grades in addition to other information.
Deadlines
There is no formal submission deadline
Restrictions
Us applicants are limited to the children of employees of nes labs. The trust is currently working with earth university foundation to give a scholarship to an indigenous child from ecuador to attend the university. There is no restriction on this grant other than that the child come from a poorer community within certain areas of ecuador. Earth university foundation does the selection process for this ecuadorian scholarship.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $2,477,344

    Grants listed
    12
    Assets, end of year
    $7,359,839

  • Tax year 2024

    $538,495

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $6,108,561

  • Tax year 2023

    $522,039

    Grants listed
    14
    Assets, end of year
    $6,563,501

  • Tax year 2022

    $236,221

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $6,590,009

  • Tax year 2021

    $615,745

    Grants listed
    13
    Assets, end of year
    $6,723,611

  • Tax year 2020

    $427,707

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $7,289,325

  • Tax year 2019

    $344,539

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $7,678,019

  • Tax year 2018

    $412,986

    Grants listed
    17
    Assets, end of year
    $7,859,721

Grants paid in 2025

12 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Mass Eye & Ear AssociatesBoston, MA

    Upgrade of the ogi's high performance compute cluster

    $1,667,000
  2. Jocotoco Conservation FoundationBaltimore, MD

    Grant for parques condor infrastructure maintenancepurchase of 132 hectares for buenaventura preserve in ecuadorgrant for parque condor for bird acquision, telemetry and connection and conference

    $340,349
  3. Capital Land TrustLacey, WA

    Infrastructure of bay shore preserve

    $100,000
  4. Norwich Grange HallNorwich, VT

    Charitable

    $70,000
  5. The Phoenix ConservancyPullman, WA

    Foxhole forest construction in madagascar and monarch habitat restoration at pullman school in wa

    $66,624
  6. Society for the Protection of NH ForestsConcord, NH

    Purchase of land - black mountain

    $50,000
  7. The Nature Conservancy in NHArlington, VA

    Acquistion of land on fall mountain

    $50,000
  8. Vermont Institute of Natural ScienceQuechee, VT

    Early childhood exhibit

    $45,885
  9. Iglesia Evangelica Jesus de NazaretOtavalo Imbabura, Ecuador

    Grant to evangelical church in huaycopungo ecuador for purchase of chairs and tables

    $37,630
  10. NH AudubonConcord, NH

    10,000 toward aerial insectivore study and 6,000 for cliff swallow study

    $29,240
  11. Ecologists Without BordersSeattle, WA

    Charitable

    $20,300
  12. New London HospitalNew London, NH

    2 exam tables

    $316

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Environment2 grants $112,50985% of the total
  2. Community development1 grant $20,30015% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Massachusetts1 grant $1,667,000
  2. Maryland1 grant $340,349
  3. Washington3 grants $186,924
  4. Vermont2 grants $115,885
  5. New Hampshire3 grants $79,556
  6. Virginia1 grant $50,000

Officers, directors and trustees

6 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Cynthia WentworthEXECUTIVE DIR. Hours 25Pay $101,399
  • Barbara ButlerTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Bonnie BunningTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Marjorie ButlerTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Jessie BunningTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Caitlin BunningTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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